In a previous message, "Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)"
wrote: # Remove old backup image rm -dr /data4/
# Copy certain directories to HDD and PRESERVe permissions cp -a /home /data4/home cp -a /etc /data4/etc
Better (i.e. faster) would be to use rsync, because this only copies what's changed since the last backup. I use a script I picked up from somewhere called make-backup - it's possibly worth googling for that name together with rsync to get the original. Failing that, I can pass it along. (It's headed "mike's handy rotating-filesystem-snapshot utility" and seems to be created by "mrubel".) Tnx for the idea but I think I'll concentrate on Joe's idea of storebackup for now. Whilst rsync may be faster becos it is 'skipping' so many files, I would prefer that ALL the files were copied, even if
John Pettigrew wrote: they hadn't changed. Tnx though -- ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 ========================================================================